Jump to content

User:PatHadley/Map of Archaeology/Content on the past

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 Main Discussion Outline: The Past Outline: The Discipline Participate Project organization Assessment Resources Showcase 

The organization of knowledge about the past can be done in two primary ways: by regions or by periods - space or time. This page is designed to provide an overall picture of both those approaches. It classifies content (or it's lack) on Wikipedia not necessarily our state of knowledge as it is.

Notes

  • As of April 2013 coverage of the archaeological past was arguably too Eurocentric, particularly for major synthetic articles, templates and timelines. This needs addressing as it is an example of [[systemic bias.
  • Frameworks for thinking about space and time are varied and often argued about! The intention here is to use the most pragmatic and accepted frameworks that facilitates the organisation of articles

Synoptic table

[edit]

This table synthesises and organises the archaeological content on Wikipedia by continent or region and by period at a very general level.

The Principal prehistoric cultures of the Old World
Prehistoric Europe
Prehistoric Africa
Prehistoric Asia
Period & Climate Europe North Africa,
West Africa and Sahara
Central Africa,
South and East Africa
Middle East South Asia, and
Central Asia
East Asia and South-East Asia
1000 Before Present (BP)



(Middle Ages) (Caliphate) (Sahelian kingdoms) Mapungubwe (Caliphate) (Middle Kingdoms) (Song Dynasty)
2000 BP



Iron Age (Ancient North Africa) Bantu expansion (Classical Antiquity) (Iron Age India) (Han Dynasty)
11th century BC (3000 BP)




Urnfield culture

Bronze Age

Copper Age in Niger


Bantu expansion
Late Bronze Age
Early Iron Age
development of
Indian Iron Age
Chinese Bronze Age
4000 BP




Bell beaker
Chalcolithic
corded ware
domestication of the horse
Neolithic of Tichit

Tenerean
Middle Bronze Age (Sumer) Indus Valley civilisation

writing
Chinese Neolithic
of Longshan
5000 BP




Yamna culture,
enclosed villages
first megaliths
Chalcolithic
of Central Europe
Beginning of the Hunter-gatherer art
of South Africa
Early Bronze Age Regionalization Era
6000 BP




Samara culture

Lower Neolithic
Danubian Neolithic

Mediterranean
and Egyptian Neolithic
Beginning of Neolithic in East Africa Uruk period
Chalcolithic
(copper metallurgy)
Mehrgarh Neolithic
of Yang-Shao
rice-growing (?)
7000 BP




Cardial and Linear Pottery
(agriculture, stock-rearing, Pottery)

Starčevo and Vinča culture
agriculture, stock-rearing (pigs, bovine, sheep)
Neolithic of the Sahara/Sahel

Ubaid period
ceramic Cyprus

Mehrgarh[bhirana] haryana Hongshan culture of Northeast Asia (c. 4700 BC/6700 BP)

8000 BP




Tardenoisian cultures
(gathering of legumes)
Neolithic (Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean )
Sesklo and Choirokoitia
Neolithic with ceramic
Ubaid period
MehrgarhBhirrana (India) Neolithic of northern China

9000 BP




Sauveterrian cultures

Komornica culture
Wiltonian Pre-ceramic B
Pre-ceramic A
Neolithic in Turkey
(wheat, barley)
hunter gatherers
of Jōmon (ancient Japan)
10,000 BP




Ahrensburg culture,
Azilian and Asiloid cultures (northern Spain, southern France)

Capsian Goats domestication Zagros in Iran

First towns Near East at Aşıklı Höyük and Jericho
Hoabinhian of Southeast Asia
11,000 BP




Backed point culture (Federmesser)

Mezine (Ukraine)

Magosian

Natufian

Kandivili
12,000 BP Holocene began
glacial ended (12,000 BP)
glacial at its coldest (20,000 BP)
Magdalenian
Solutrean
Epigravettian
Hamburg culture

Ibero-Maurisian
Mushabian
Sebilian
Lupemban culture



Kebarian
Athlitian


Beginning of Neolithic religion at Göbekli Tepe (Southeastern Turkey)
Bhimbetka rock paintings south Asia pre-Jōmon ceramic (Japan)
20,000 BP





Gravettian (France)

Pavlovian

Aurignacian (art)

Kostienki (western Russia)


Antelian

Aurignacian (art)
Sơn Vi culture (northern Vietnam)
30,000 BP

Châtelperronian
Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens

Aurignacian (art)
Szeletian (Hungary)



Aterian


Stillbay






Balangoda Culture[bhimbetka rock paintings]
Angara Culture


Sen-Doki
40,000 BP




Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens Emirian


Jabroudian
50,000 BP



Mousterian
Homo neanderthalensis



Mousterian
Homo neanderthalensis


Fauresmithian
Homo sapiens

Mousterian

Homo neanderthalensis




Soanian



Ngandong
culture
80,000 BP



latest glacial began (95,000 BP)

Homo neanderthalensis

Micoquien (the Netherlands)

Homo neanderthalensis

Micoquien
Mousteroid
Homo sapiens


Homo neanderthalensis

Ordos
culture

100,000 BP


glacial ended (130,000 BP)



Upper Acheulean
Homo neanderthalensis


Homo neanderthalensis Sangoan
Homo sapiens



Homo neanderthalensis

Acheulean

Soanian
200,000 BP
glacial began (352,000 BP)

Homo neanderthalensis


Tayacian (southern France)


Homo neanderthalensis
Homo sapiens

Acheulean



Homo neanderthalensis


Acheulean

300,000 BP





middle Acheulean
Homo neanderthalensis


Clactonian (England)




Pre-Soanian
500,000 BP




Lower Acheulean
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo neanderthalensis
worked pebbles

Lower Acheulean
Homo neanderthalensis Homo erectus pekinensis

1,000,000 BP




worked pebbles
Homo antecessor (northern Spain, England, France)

Homo erectus
worked pebbles


lower Acheulean


Oldowan

worked pebbles
2,000,000 BP


Homo habilis, Homo ergaster bhimbetka findings cupules

Resources

[edit]


Archaeology by Period

[edit]
Main article: List of archaeological periods